New PNG and TIFF to Text Converters and an OCR Quality Option

Two new OCR converters, PNG to Text and TIFF to Text, extract text from images and join the existing JPG to Text converter. All three image converters and PDF OCR now take an OcrQuality parameter. Its enhanced mode uses a more advanced recognition engine that reads low quality scans, photos, small print, rotated text and clear handwriting much better.

Highlights

• PNG to Text - OCR for PNG images, tuned for screenshots, documents and photos. Transparent backgrounds are handled automatically.
• TIFF to Text - OCR for TIFF scans, faxes and archives. Multi-page TIFF files are recognized page by page.
• PDF OCR and JPG to Text gain the same OcrQuality option as the new converters.
• Both new converters also support image preprocessing and OCR language selection.

Parameters

• OcrQuality (collection, default fast) - fast processes pages quickly. enhanced uses a more advanced recognition engine that reads low quality scans, photos, small print, rotated text and clear handwriting much better, at the cost of slower processing.

Try it out

• PNG to Text - API sandbox: png-to-txt
• TIFF to Text - API sandbox: tiff-to-txt
• JPG to Text - API sandbox: jpg-to-txt
• PDF OCR - API sandbox: pdf-to-ocr